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Mobile, Ala.
Oct. 16, 1865.

Maj. Gen. Wager Swayne,
Supt. of Freedmen & Refugees, 
Montgomery, Ala,

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Enclosed I send a communication from Dr. Nott. I will lay before you a plain statement of facts. All the damage done to this Building, and all the injury or losses [[strikethrough]] if any [[/strikethrough]] of the Anatomical Specimens, Chemicals or, Phil. Apparatus, occurred prior to our occupation, and also prior to the possession of it by the Freedmens Bureau. They may thank a nigger teacher that any portion of the furniture or internal Apparatus was left. The building was for days open to soldiers, men, women, & children of all character or color. And I saw the destruction of property, picked up a skull and some portion of a skeleton in the streets, and wrote a communication to Gen. Andrews informing him of the facts, who immediately ordered the building protected. Something must be spedily done if we retain the building. A desperate effort is being made to take it from us. In regard to the "negro cobbler". Every loose

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[[stamp]]: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES